BRICK AND TILE WORKERS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22310, 26 January 1938, Page 16

BRICK AND TILE WORKERS

CLAIMS FOR NEW AWARD

(PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAiI.I

WELLINGTON, January 25. The claims of the New Zealand Federated Brick. Tile. Pottery, end Clay Workers' Industrial Association of Workers" for a new Dominion award were heard before a Conciliation Council to-day. The principal proposals, with tn«? employers counter proposals in parenthesis, were:—4o-hour week (same); overtime at time and a half for three hours (four hours); thereafter double rates (same); minimum hourly wages —Mangers and moulders 3s (2s 6id): stickers and pipe makers 2s lOd (2s sd); setters and drawers 2s 9d (,2s 4d): burners 2s 9d (2s 3d); all other workers 2s 6d (2s 2£d); under age workers 27s 6d to 82s 6d (15s to 72s 6d); female workers not mentioned <lss to 455); maximum temperature 'of kiln W which workers will work 120 degrees Fahrenheit (130 degrees). Other conditions covered specific work and holidays. To-day's proceeaings were almost entirely in coninutr tee, the questions at issue being wages and holidays, on which no agreement was reached. The council will resume to-morrow morning.